Praxair, Inc. (Danbury, Conn.; www.praxair.com) has received a major order from the Indian Oil Corporation Ltd. (www.iocl.com) for the long-term supply of hydrogen and nitrogen gases to its new 300,00-bbl/d greenfield oil refinery which is being built at Paradip, Orissa on…
Teijin Fibers Ltd (Osaka, Japan; www.teijin.co.jp) announced today the first-ever program in the marine clothing industry for collecting and recycling used garments, launched in collaboration with Henri Lloyd (Manchester, U.K.; www.henrilloyd.com), a major global brand of marine apparel based in…
Wacker Chemie AG (Munich, Germany; www.wacker.com) has officially opened its new dispersible powder and vinyl acetate ethylene dispersion plant in Nanjing, China. With an annual capacity of 30,000 metric tons of dispersible powder, the Nanjing plant is the largest of…
Cognis Mexico S.A., a subsidiary of Cognis GmbH (Monheim, Germany; www.cognis.com), today opened a new sulfation plant at its site in Ecatepec, Mexico. The facility, which uses state-of-the art technology to increase the existing plant’s capacity and the quality of…
A contract between the Moroccan refining company Samir and Pörner Ingenieurgesellschaft mbH (Vienna, Austria; www.poerner.at) for the planning and construction of a new Biturox plant for the production of bitumen, including storage tanks and HGV filling station, was finalized and signed.…
Air Liquide (Paris, France; www.airliquide.com) has just commissioned what is claimed to be the world’s largest carbon monoxide unit,handing it over to the customer, Saudi International Petrochemicals Co. (Sipchem). This new carbon monoxide unit is located on the industrial complex…
Siemens Energy, Inc. (Orlando, Fla.; www.siemens.com) has been chosen to provide the coal gasification technology for the Taylorville Energy Center (TEC), the 730-MW (gross) advanced clean-coal generating plant being developed near Taylorville, Ill., the company announced today. The Taylorville Energy…
GF Piping Systems (www.piping.georgfischer.com), a Corporate Group of Georg Fischer AG (Schaffhausen, Switzerland), inaugurated on 4 November its new production facility in Ratnagiri, India. The corporation has invested several million Swiss francs in constructing this completely new factory in the…
Alstom (Paris, France; www.power.alstom.com) has been awarded two contracts worth a total of over €100 million in India and Saudi Arabia. Growing concern over climate change, combined with ever stricter environmental regulations and compliance deadlines, have increased international demand for air…
Peruvian Oil Co. Petroperú (Petroleos del Perú S.A.; www.petroperu.com.pe) and Axens (Rueil-Malmaison , France; www.axens.net) have signed a first contract for the modernization of Talara, Petroperú’s largest refinery. The main objectives are the expansion of the refinery and the implementation…